BrainKeeper vs. PBwiki vs. WackoWiki

General Features BrainKeeper PBwiki WackoWiki
Version
N/A
N/A
6.2.0
Last Release Date
N/A
N/A
2025-12-14 (1 month ago)
Last Update here
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2010-08-16 (15 years ago)
2025-12-13 (1 month ago)
Author
BrainKeeper, Inc.
PBworks
WackoWiki Team
URL
Free and Open Source
N/A
N/A
Yes
License
N/A
N/A
BSD
Programming Language
N/A
N/A
PHP
Data Storage
N/A
N/A
Database
License Cost/ Fee
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
Determined by Solution Needs
0
Development status
N/A
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
Business Enterprises
Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
Hosting Features BrainKeeper PBwiki WackoWiki
Storage Quota
Unlimited
No limit
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
Unlimited
No limit
N/A
Other Limits
None
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
No Restrictions
None
N/A
Corporate Branding
Yes
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
Yes
N/A
System Requirements BrainKeeper PBwiki WackoWiki
Operating System
N/A
N/A
OS Independent
Root Access
N/A
N/A
No
Webserver
N/A
N/A
run with the appserver/webserver of your choice
Other Requirements
N/A
N/A
mod_rewrite (optional)
Datastorage BrainKeeper PBwiki WackoWiki
Text Files
N/A
N/A
No
MySQL
N/A
N/A
Yes
PostgreSQL
N/A
N/A
No
Oracle
N/A
N/A
No
SQLite
N/A
N/A
Yes
BerkeleyDB
N/A
N/A
No
RCS
N/A
N/A
No
Other
N/A
N/A
MariaDB
Security/Anti-Spam BrainKeeper PBwiki WackoWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
N/A
N/A
LDAP (patch), ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
Unknown
No
Optional
nofollow
Unknown
No
Optional
Blacklist
Unknown
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support BrainKeeper PBwiki WackoWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
N/A
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features BrainKeeper PBwiki WackoWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features BrainKeeper PBwiki WackoWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
1
English
1
English
30
Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Tamil, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
N/A
N/A
Patch
Structured Data
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Links BrainKeeper PBwiki WackoWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features BrainKeeper PBwiki WackoWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
All
Math formulas
No
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Unknown
No
No
BBCode Support
Unknown
No
Patch
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
Scripting
Javascript
actions (PHP)
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability BrainKeeper PBwiki WackoWiki
Section Editing
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
No
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics BrainKeeper PBwiki WackoWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Unknown
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Output BrainKeeper PBwiki WackoWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Patch
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Yes
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Media and Files BrainKeeper PBwiki WackoWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Contents
Extras BrainKeeper PBwiki WackoWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Blogs
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Ticket System
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Patch
Syntax Examples BrainKeeper PBwiki WackoWiki
Internal Link
CamelCaseLink or [Free Link]
[[InternalLink]] 
((InternalLink))
[[InternalLink alternate text]]
CamelCase
External Link
[http://www.externallink.com]
https://wackowiki.org
[[https://wackowiki.org WackoWiki]]
[[Wikipedia:WackoWiki]]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!! Level 4
!!!!! Level 5
!!!!!! Level 6
== Level 1 ==
=== Level 2 ===
==== Level 3 ====
===== Level 4 =====
====== Level 5 ======
Bold Format
**bold**
**bold**
Italics Format
''italics''
//italics//
Underline Format
__underline__
__underline__
Monospace Format
<code>monospace</code>
##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
-strikethrough-
--strikethrough--
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
vvsubscriptvv
Images
[http://www.imagelocation.com/image.jpg
((image.png))
file:image.png
https://example.com/image.png
Aligning Text
<left>, <center>, <right>
{html}<div align="right">{html}

%%(wacko wrapper="text" wrapper_align="center")
content%%
Text Indentation
Indented block
one
two
Bulleted Lists
* Bullet #1
* Bullet #2
** SubBullet #1
*one
**One-two
*two
*three
Numbered Lists
# Number #1
# Number #2
1. numbered List
1. numbered List-2
2.#8 numbered List, with break


Definition Lists
<dl>
</dl>
{html}<dl>
<dt>Coffee</dt>
<dd>Black hot drink</dd>
<dt>Milk</dt>
<dd>White cold drink</dd>
</dl>{html}
Horizontal Rule
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